haunt

haunt is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
2. transitive verb. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.
3. transitive verb. To practice; to devote one's self to.
4. transitive verb. To accustom; to habituate.
5. intransitive verb. To persist in staying or visiting.
6. noun. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
7. noun. The habit of resorting to a place.
8. noun. Practice; skill.
9. noun. a frequently visited place

   Synonyms: hangout, repair, resort

10. verb. haunt like a ghost; pursue

    "Fear of illness haunts her"

    Synonyms: ghost, obsess

11. verb. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place

    "She haunts the ballet"

    Synonyms: frequent

12. verb. follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to

    "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"

    "the ghost of her mother haunted her"

    Synonyms: stalk

Synonyms

hangout, repair, resort, ghost, obsess, frequent, stalk

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in haunt:

ahunt, unhat

Common word forms

haunts, haunted, haunter, haunting

Words from these letters

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